Kemenangan Ustaz Haji Mohd Salleh Man (9,618 undi) menewaskan Rohaizat Othman (5,067 undi) mencatatkan episod memalukan Umno/BN memandangkan majoriti yang sebegitu besar.  read more...

M ajlis Peguam semalam telah menjelaskan bahawa Speaker Perak Speaker Datuk R Ganesan hanya memfailkan notis pemberhentian sebagai peguam pada 17 Ogos, sepuluh hari selepas tarikh tamat untuk beliau lakukan sebelum ianya menjadi tidak sah.  read more...

Anggota Dewan Undangan Negeri kawasan Tronoh V.Sivakumar hari ini memfailkan saman terhadap Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri Perak Datuk Dr Abdul Rahman Hashim untuk menuntut ganti rugi, ganti rugi teruk dan ganti rugi contoh. read more...

Banyak yang perlu dipelajari oleh Barisan Nasional (BN) dalam mengharungi kekalahan di Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Permatang Pasir. Pengajaran itu pula bukan baru sebaliknya telah diwarisi sejak tsunami Mac 2008 yang menyaksikan BN tumbang di lima negeri.  read more...

The surprising thing about yesterday's Permatang Pasir by-election isn't PAS retaining the seat or its scale of victory

The surprising thing was Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate Rohaizat Othman's disappointment at the lack of Chinese votes for him.  read more...

Rasa gembira dan puas hati selepas berkempen di Permatang Pasir bertukar menjadi gelisah dan penuh kebimbangan. Dalam keadaan negara yang tak menentu di mana rasuah, penyelewengan, salah guna kuasa, api perkauman dimainkan oleh Umno dan media miliknya serta kes yang melibatkan kematian petugas Pakatan Rakyat, tiba-tiba YB Hassan Ali, Exco Selangor, mengeluarkan kenyataan pada hari membuang undi di Permatang Pasir bahawa orang-orang Islam yang didapati minum beer atau arak akan ditangkap oleh pegawai-pegawai Majlis dan Jabatan Agama yang akan diberi kuasa. Apa niat sebenar beliau?  read more...

What is important, though, is that justice has finally been served to that very lovely girl named Maslinda Ishak who was wronged by the government. She may have been a GRO but she was doing an honest job and should not have been photographed naked and asked to consent to sex to secure her release.  read more...

Terengganu Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said has expressed his confidence that the political crisis in the state would be resolved soon following the support given to him by the Barisan Nasional (BN) elected representative now.  read more...

My friends we are witnessing the slow and messy end of Najib and gang, who for reason best known to themselves, have decided to commit Har-rah-kee-ree in public. Whether this was ordered by a greater authority (ahem¡­Mahathir?) as a form of punishment or chosen in preference to a dishonourable and certain death at the hands of an enemy (Us and Pakatan Rakyat!!) is anybody's guess.  read more...

I am glad to see Malaysian Mirror launching the trial run of its Chinese version. It is a welcome addition to the increasingly crowded bull market for the Chinese New Media.  read more...

Although he and his family have been residing in Hong Kong for many years, Malaysian tycoon Tan Sri Robert Kuok says he is always concerned about things back home.  read more...

The split in the MCA took a turn for the worse tonight with the presidential council deciding to sack deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek, on the recommendation of the party's disciplinary committee.  read more...

Calon Pakatan Rakyat, Salleh Man memenangi pilihanraya kecil Permatang Pasir.

Keputusan rasmi yang dikeluarkan oleh SPR menunjukkan Pas memperolehi 9618 undi manakala BN mendapat 5067 undi. Ini bermakna, Calon Pas menang dengan majoriti 4551 undi. read more...

PAS memenangi kerusi DUN Permatang Pasir dengan majoriti besar tetapi merosot beberapa ratus undi daripada keputusan yang dicapai parti itu pada pilihan raya umum tahun lepas.  read more...

PAS's Mohd Salleh Man has won the Permatang Pasir state vote here in Penang by a big majority of 4,551 votes.  read more...

Pakatan Rakyat is capitalising on Rohaizat Othman's disbarment at the Permatang Pasir by-election after the Bar Council noted that lawyers are not disbarred for the mistakes of partners, as alluded by the defensive Barisan Nasional.  read more...

Nearly as soon as he filed his papers to contest the Permatang Pasir by-election yesterday, Umno candidate Rohaizat Othman ran into controversy.  read more...

In response to inquiries from the media, we wish to clarify Rohaizat Othman's status as an advocate and solicitor.  read more...

PAS leaders today said they would double up efforts to deflect Umno's racial attacks in the by-election campaign here, in a sign that the Islamist party is concerned Umno has made gains among the Malay electorate despite the state constituency being a stronghold for the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) party.  read more...

The confrontation between BN and Pakatan Rakyat has never been suspended after the 8 March general elections. It is dazzling to see incidents like the Perak regime change, the talk between UMNO and PAS and Selangor Exco being investigated by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission. And another new front has been formed recently.  read more...

Apathy is a major problem in Malaysia. I don't mean this just in a political sense, but in the sense of caring for our community, and in the sense of caring enough to take independent action. People just don't care, and it's time we changed that.  read more...

Among the matters to be decided at the special Umno assembly in October will be whether some 60,000 members at the divisional level, as opposed to 2,500 delegates, or all Umno's three million members will be given the right to elect party leaders.  read more...

What Malays must understand is that it is the Rakyat that are the masters, and NOT the leaders. If we understood that, we'd realize that competition between separate workable political coalitions is in the best interest of all Malaysians, including us.  read more...

I myself will not touch the NEP with a long barge pole, but it is a personal preference. I do believe that if it is applied in the right spirit in accordance with its original purpose of eradicating poverty across the board, it can be an important tool for the greater good of our society.  read more...

At 1.40 pm at the SS2 Police Station, Petaling Jaya, I lodged the following report against the MCA President and Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat and the Kuala Dimensi Sdn. Bhd (KDSB) CEO and MP for Bintulu, Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing asking for police to commence immediate investigations into Tiong allegations against Ong, particularly over Tiong's RM10 million donation to Ong last year for MCA divisions.  read more...

My objectives remain the same. My mission and vision have not changed. I still want to see Malaysians transform into an informed voting population who may vote for either Barisan Nasional or Pakatan Rakyat, I don't really care which, but they do so fully aware of why they are doing so.  read more...

Kampung Buah Pala will be torn down on Sept 1.

This is the new date agreed to by all parties after several hours of noisy and tense standoff between the villagers and the developer, Nusmetro Ventures Sdn Bhd, with the police in between on Thursday.  read more...

Domestic unemployment rate may rise to 4.5 per cent by year-end from 3.7 per cent last year, International Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir said today.  read more...

Me thinks something is stirring in the Pakatan Rakyat and UMNO camps. The winds of change seems to blow ever so slowly. Diversions are being thrown around here and there by Pakatan Rakyat.  read more...

The Malaysian Bar is heartened that the Police are taking the matter of the death of lawyer R. Thinakaran Raman seriously and that a special task force has been established to investigate his death.  read more...

The Orwellian nightmare of a future without choices is ever present in Malaysia thanks to the various value propositions being peddled by both PAS and Umno of late.  read more...

The police will soon be calling up DAP Youth chief Loke Siew Fook and Jelutong MP Jeff Ooi to have their statements recorded regarding allegations they had insulted Islam.  read more...

Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat was forced today to deny allegations that he had received a RM10 million donation last year from Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd (KDSB) CEO Tiong King Sing, who is also Barisan Nasional (BN) backbenchers club chairman.  read more...

Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing claims the RM10 million donation he made last year to MCA via Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat was paid in three separate cash installments.  read more...

Gerakan today called on the government to recover the monies that are not legally due to the parties involved in the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) fiasco and to introduce a mechanism to prevent a recurrence.  read more...

Umno leaders or members found guilty of sabotaging the party's election machinery in the Permatang Pasir by-election will be expelled, Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said today.  read more...

There is certainly the ?¡ãneed to be worried?¡À matter in Selangor. One quote going around from some prominent businessmen is that ?¡À It took BN 50 yrs to become so arrogant, but it took PR only 1(one) year to be just as arrogant?¡À. Nowhere is that business sentiment more acutely felt than amongst some housing developers.  read more...

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that he wants Selangor back in BN's fold.

I am willing to provide BN some recommendations or tips for free as a Merdeka Day gift, although I am usually not that generous.  read more...

The Orwellian nightmare of a future without choices is ever present in Malaysia thanks to the various value propositions being peddled by both PAS and Umno of late.  read more...

The Malaysian Bar is heartened that the Police are taking the matter of the death of lawyer R. Thinakaran Raman seriously and that a special task force has been established to investigate his death.  read more...

Domestic unemployment rate may rise to 4.5 per cent by year-end from 3.7 per cent last year, International Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir said today.  read more...

My objectives remain the same. My mission and vision have not changed. I still want to see Malaysians transform into an informed voting population who may vote for either Barisan Nasional or Pakatan Rakyat, I don't really care which, but they do so fully aware of why they are doing so.  read more...

At 1.40 pm at the SS2 Police Station, Petaling Jaya, I lodged the following report against the MCA President and Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat and the Kuala Dimensi Sdn. Bhd (KDSB) CEO and MP for Bintulu, Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing asking for police to commence immediate investigations into Tiong allegations against Ong, particularly over Tiong's RM10 million donation to Ong last year for MCA divisions.  read more...

(This is one response to an earlier post expressing concern about what is happening to the Selangor Pakatan Rakyat government which I think is important enough to share in the public domain to elicit a wider discussion. ¡§C Kit)  read more...

(This is one response to an earlier post expressing concern about what is happening to the Selangor Pakatan Rakyat government which I think is important enough to share in the public domain to elicit a wider discussion. ¡§C Kit)  read more...

Why is it that I, as a Malay, show much disrespect to Najib? Why are there so many Hang Jebats as oppose to Hang Tuahs in this time of ours ¡§C ready to do verbal battle with our leaders? Menderhaka they say. Sometimes after I have written my piece I read them and I am appalled at the venom of what I write. While we are Hang Jebats we do what we do because of what Hang Tuah had said  ?¡ãTakkan Melayu Hilang di Dunia?¡À. If we do not care for our survival as a viable partner to the other races in our country then who will?  read more...

The controversial trial of a Malaysian opposition leader for sedition started today, drawing criticism from international legal observers amid increasing opposition fears of a crackdown on dissent.  read more...

Utusan Malaysia reporter Mohd Nizam Mohd Yatim told the High Court today that he thought the phrase ?¡ãultra vires?¡À contained in a press release issued by Karpal Singh meant the DAP man was insulting the Perak Sultan.  read more...

Selangor's embattled PAS Commissioner today played down the impact of his very public tiff with DAP's Ronnie Liu over the seizure of beer from a 7-Eleven outlet, and his calls for his fellow executive councillor to be stripped of the local government portfolio. read more...

More than one type of fireworks was going off in the quiet village of Kampung Selemak here last night at PKR's Merdeka celebration. Responding to Umno's relentless accusations that he is a traitor to the Malays, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim attacked his bitter rivals last night in front of a large rural crowd.  read more...

PAS will not entertain any of Umno's call for PAS to leave the opposition pact, its spiritual leader, Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat said today.  read more...

Perak PAS Youth hopes the Ipoh City Council (MBI) will approve its application to hold a rally at Stadium Perak, urging the dissolution of the Perak State Assembly. read more...

The Selangor government is moving towards a clear separation of powers between the state government and the legislature, to avoid what Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders have claimed was executive interference during the Perak power tussle.  read more...

At 5.10 pm, on my blog this morning re: ?¡ãLarge-scale H1N1 awareness campaign welcome but why so belated ¡§C after 33 deaths and some 2,000 cases??¡À , I received this heart-rending post from a mother, Karen Lee from Kota Kemuning, worried about her five-year-old son in the A (H1N1) flu killer pandemic, which has claimed 38 lives since the first death was reported 26 days ago on July 16 and recorded 2,253 cases since the first H1N1 case less than three months ago on May 15, 2009. read more...

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today challenged Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to decide if he wanted the country to be based on his 1 Malaysia concept or one which promoted a racist agenda.  read more...

Premier League betting companies offer soccer fans a variety of betting approaches. Other than the winning and losing odds, fans may bet whether the coach will be sacked or how many championships can the Manchester United win. If you bet, when do you think Pakatan Rakyat will collapse?  read more...

Umno appears to have discarded plans to widen the party's appeal and speak for all Malaysians. Facing pressure from its rank and file, and concerned that its mantle as defender of Malay rights is under threat from PAS, the ruling party is retreating into its own cocoon.  read more...

The words ?¡ãreactionist?¡À and ?¡ãtraitor?¡À can frequently be seen recently. It is a bit frightening.

It might be many reactionists and traitors walking beside you along the street. But what actually are they reacting against? And what have they betrayed? I have no idea either.  read more...

A veteran of Machiavellian politics, Lim Kit Siang defended one of his DAP subordinates in an article entitled - ?¡ãWhy has Najib condoned the Umno-inspired hysteria and gunning for Loke Siew Fook for insulting the Perak royalty and Islam when these allegations are completely groundless??¡À  read more...

Barisan Nasional can retake Selangor and other Pakatan Rakyat states if it can prove it is a better alternative to the current state governments.  read more...

He has five previous convictions for theft, firearms offences and corruption, yet he kept his Datukship. Yesterday, Datuk Koay Khay Chye, 52, and five others were charged ( http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/8/11/courts/4490444&sec=courts ) in Penang with trafficking 300kg Erimin pills worth RM20million. They were arrested during a raid on July 28 at Sungai Dua.  read more...

Hundreds of people today gathered outside the Umno headquarters here to express their support for Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin who called Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim a traitor to the Malay race.  read more...

Malaysia is truly Asia (at least in Dear Ambassador Todt, I had sought to prove that). And Malaysia is also truly oxymoron.  read more...

SIVARASA Rasiah was a human rights lawyer before he entered politics and was elected as the Member of Parliament for Subang in the March 2008 general election. Hence, the Parti Keadilan Rakyat vice-president is no stranger to the criminal justice system ?a and to being arrested himself.  read more...

MOB rule. "Ini bukan budaya kita". Public nuisance. The 20,000 who marched on 1 Aug 2009 in Kuala Lumpur against the Internal Security Act (ISA) have been labelled these.  read more...

Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has offered the public a glimpse of a Pakatan Rakyat (PR) federal government by outlining a common platform that includes an anti-discrimination law, abolishing the ISA and relaxing of legislation like the Sedition Act and press laws.  read more...

There is nothing Islamic about a society infested with corruption, dehumanized by poverty, and riddled with injustices.  It would be the height of hypocrisy, and mock our great faith to boot, for Khairy and Khir Toyo to claim the mantle of Islamic leadership if they are a part of the state apparatus that allows these evils to continue.  read more...

Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has claimed that he does not understand what ?¡ã1 Malaysia?¡À stands for and suggested his ?¡ãMalaysia Boleh?¡À is a better slogan. I can't help but agree with him that ?¡ãMalaysia Boleh?¡À perhaps better describes some of the grotesque idiosyncrasies of Malaysian life, at least over the following two scenarios which were spectacularly contradictory to each other:  read more...

?¡ãMalaysia belongs to her people.

You and I and every person for whom this country is home.

Every indicator is that we will be going to the polls very soon.

Soon we will be hearing all kinds of promises from politicians out to get our vote. .  read more...

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed today openly lashed out at Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's decision to scrap the teaching of Mathematics and Science in English (PPSMI).  read more...

Encouraged by the strong approval rating of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and inspired by the positive vibes from his economic liberalisation policies and goodies for the rakyat, Barisan Nasional (BN) is said to be keen on going back to the people to end the political impasse in Perak.  read more...

The opportunity to study abroad is gift. I remember my days as a student in Belfast so long ago. Now as then, overseas study gives us the chance to be educated at some of the finest, best established institutions of higher learning anywhere, and to be exposed to the best that has been thought and done, and to measure ourselves against the highest standards. It is an opportunity to see the world.  read more...

Rasah MP Loke Siew Fook denied today he was the author of what appears to be a seditious blog posting against Perak's Raja Nazrin Shah which DAP's Lim Kit Siang said is part of a ?¡ãbloody-minded?¡À campaign by Umno to demonise the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) party as anti-Malay.  read more...

The opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition is on the verge of implosion, said Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.  read more...

THE Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission is angry, so I gather, because the Prime Minister has agreed to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry into their interrogation procedures and methods they employ.  read more...

Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim outrightly rejected calls to strip state executive councillor Ronnie Liu of his local government portfolio and gave a stern warning to all his people not to issue any more statements on the ?¡ãbeer issue?¡À until a solution is reached.  read more...

Prostitutes are better creatures than politicians. With prostitutes, you pay them money and you get to screw them. With politicians, you pay them money and they screw you. Prostitutes promise you a good time and deliver. Politicians never deliver on their promises.  read more...

Online and wire agency reports that the Government is mulling an Internet filtering system similar to China's controversial ?¡ãGreen Dam?¡À project has got the local online community in a huff, while technology experts questioned the viability of the project.  read more...

A FRIEND asked on Facebook: "[The Barisan Nasional] (BN) insists [on keeping the Internal Security Act (ISA)]; do you want to keep the BN?"  read more...

PAS today announced that it would let the state government decide on the sale of alcoholic beverages in Muslim-majority areas in Selangor.  read more...

The DAP's Lim Kit Siang today urged all Pakatan Rakyat (PR) partners to show more cohesion and common sense of purpose to strengthen public confidence, and avoid the kind of public quarrels which could result in the alliance becoming a ?¡ãone-term wonder?¡À. .  read more...

Government DNA expert Dr Seah Lay Hong told the coroner's court today that instructions from police investigators did not include checking the possibility of Teoh Beng Hock being murdered and had not been specifically considered in her analyses.  read more...

Government chemist Zaraiha Awang said an adrenaline test that could have determined if Teoh Beng Hock had been under stress at the time of death was not conducted during the autopsy.  read more...

Just before Teoh Beng Hock was killed, the civil war within Pakatan Rakyat threatened to undo this new political coalition. DAP threatened to pull out from the PAS led Kedah Govt.  read more...

Selangor PAS wants the state government to include beer in its ban on the sale of alcohol in all Muslim-majority areas and state executive councillor Ronnie Liu to be removed from his post as head of local government.  read more...

Going by the current Utusan Malaysia thinking, anyone working with the Chinese or Indians for political power is a traitor.  read more...

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today urged all Malaysians not to raise sensitive issues or to incite racial hatred.  read more...

Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders scoffed at an opinion piece published in Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia today accusing the multi-racial three-party opposition bloc of deliberately working to undermine the special rights and privileges of the Malays.  read more...

MEDIA cetak bahasa Cina utama menyiarkan gambar bagaimana polis menyuraikan perhimpunan "Mansuhkan ISA" dengan tembakan gas pemedih mata dan semburan meriam air berasid.  read more...

The planned demolition of houses today in Kampung Buah Pala has been postponed, once again, to Friday, pending a solution to be worked out for the 23 families facing eviction from the area, dubbed Penang's High Chaparral, which is to be developed.  read more...

Utusan Malaysia has joined Berita Minggu to come out with an article entitled ?¡ã Melayu jangan jadi bacul ?¡À by Noor Azam which spouts unabashed rank racism, incitement and sedition totally subversive of the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's 1Malaysia slogan.  read more...

The Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia appeared set to raise the temperature on the race debate when the newspaper published an opinion today calling on the Malays not to be cowards anymore and rise up to face the challenges being posed by the Chinese and Indians in Malaysia. read more...

I have received a report from my IT Manager Goh Kheng Teong on his meeting at a TM Customer Engagement convened by Telekom Malaysia last Friday on July 31, 2009 in Bangsar following his constant badgering of Telekom Malaysia with complaints about atrocious Streamyx service with little results.   read more...

Barisan Nasional state assembly speaker R Ganesan lodged a police report with the Ipoh district police headquarters accusing his Parkatan Rakyat speaker V Sivakumar of illegally using the speaker's official letterhead twice to communicate with him.  read more...

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today demanded Utusan Malaysia retract its front-page report today calling the Opposition Leader a traitor to the Malaysia.  read more...

The Malaysian Bar denounces the Government's over-zealous and abusive show of power in its apparent determination to crush the people's exercise of its right to the twin freedoms of assembly and expression during the rallies in Kuala Lumpur on 1 August.   read more...

Twenty nine people, including a 16 year-old boy, were charged in court today for taking part in the anti-ISA rally which turned the capital into a warzone last Saturday.  read more...

Finally, I am in agreement with an Umno leader. On the issue of the Internal Security Act (ISA), no less. In a Malaysian Insider report titled ?¡ãMukhriz defends ISA, says it's misunderstood?¡À , Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir has apparently lamented that the public has failed to see the benefit of the ISA. He was quoted as saying:  read more...

WHY march, when the government has said that it will review the Internal Security Act? Why march, when there are other very cosy ways of giving your views and feedback?  read more...

WHY march, when the government has said that it will review the Internal Security Act? Why march, when there are other very cosy ways of giving your views and feedback?  read more...

Prime Minister Najib Razak's pledge to improve six key areas (crime, corruption and poverty reductions as well as education, infrastructure, and public transportation) would have met widespread applause if only he had indicated just a wee bit more on how he would go about achieving those lofty goals. Malaysians are rightly fed up with highly optimistic targets and stirring slogans; what we desperately need are leaders who could execute things and get us there. read more...

Yes, please sue. And please show us how the Minister of the Federal Territory computed these losses of RM100 million to RM200 million. And show us your tax records for the last three years to prove that these amounts are legitimate and not bullshit figures.  read more...

The DAP today blamed IGP Tan Sri Musa Hassan for ?¡ãexcessive, unwarranted and inhumane?¡À police action in crushing yesterday's anti-Internal Security Act (ISA) rally, and lashed out at the authorities for trying to ?¡ãremand 13-year-old boys instead of criminals?¡À.  read more...

The MCA - Malaysian Chinese Association - has been working with UMNO since it's founding in 1940's. MCA was founded in 1949 by Kuomintang members.  read more...

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Of the four Branches of Government, the judiciary is the most crucial. When all else fails you want to know that you at least have one last bastion of justice, the courts.  read more...

INTERNAL SECURITY ACT, 1960 (Act 82) is an Act to provide for the internal security of Malaysia, preventive detention, the prevention of subversion, the suppression of organised violence against persons and property in specified areas of Malaysia, and for matters incidental thereto. [West Malaysia - 1st August. 1960; East Malaysia - 16th September 1963.]  read more...

PAS today promised to mobilise at least 50,000 of its members for the planned anti-ISA protest tomorrow.  read more...

Bucking his party line, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has written to Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat telling him that the state is legally entitled to royalties from oil extracted in a joint development region bordering Thailand.  read more...

Interesting, a PR practitioner has taken what I have said about PR consultants rather seriously. I have said that perhaps it is better for the government to spend the money, RM20 million, on some poverty eradication programmes. A government should not just talk. It is best for the government to focus on deliverables and not some slogans or giving out insignificant 'goodies'.
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